The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects. The educational structure was a stark contrast to what she experienced back in Kabul. “We We have more classes, we have more opportunities,” she said. At Carlynton, N.W.’s

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

As a result, African-Americans made huge strides in education, entrepreneurship and political power. Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Here’s a story from the Hechinger archives about the “lost generation” of refugees who are languishing in red tape as they seek to resume their college educations in the U.S. Many university-age refugees want to study in the United States, but only a tiny handful has succeeded. In Syria alone, from which 4.8

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